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Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?


From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 11:20:44 -0400


On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 06:09:05PM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote:

If the software MTBF would be better, convergence would not be an issue.
As long as it's an operational hazard to run core boxes (with some
vendors anyway)  with older piece of code than six months, you end up
engineering convergence into the networks.

Odd, I think most people would say it's an operational hazard to run code
newer than 6 months old, or at least with less than 6 months of testing on
any particular image.

How they're able to completely break so many critically important things
within 2 weeks between a bugfix code rev is still beyond me. :)

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